Flash

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.

   “He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise.”

2. fiil To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.

   “The light flashed on and off.”

3. fiil To be visible briefly.

   “The scenery flashed by quickly.”

4. fiil To make visible briefly.

   “A number will be flashed on the screen.”

5. fiil To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)

   “She flashed a vocalist at a rock concert.”

6. fiil To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.

   “But while he jested thus, / A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act. / Remembering how we three presented Maid, / Or Nymph, or Goddess, at high tide of feast, / In masque or pageant at my father's court.”

7. fiil To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.

   “He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills.”

8. fiil To communicate quickly.

   “The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.”

9. fiil To move, or cause to move, suddenly.

   “Flash forward to the present day.”

10. fiil To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

    “Susan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.”

11. fiil To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
12. fiil To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
13. fiil To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).

    “In order to flash a custom ROM to a phone, the boot loader must be unlocked first.”

14. fiil To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
15. fiil To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
16. fiil To send by some startling or sudden means.
17. fiil To burst out into violence.
18. fiil To perform a flash.
19. fiil To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
20. fiil To trick up in a showy manner.

    “Oft have I ſeaſoned ſavory periods / With ſugar'd words, to delude Guſtus' taſte, / And oft embelliſh'd my entreative phraſe, / Limning and flaſhing it with various dyes, / To draw proud Viſus to me by the eyes: […]”

21. isim A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.

    “Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century."”

22. isim A very short amount of time.

    “Quick—something must be done! done in a flash, too! But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his invention.”

23. isim A flashlight; an electric torch.

    “I reached a flash out of my car pocket and went down-grade and looked at the car.”

24. isim A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.

    “[B]reath his faults ſo quaintly, / That they may ſeeme the taints of liberty; / The flaſh and out-breake of a fiery minde, / A ſauagenes in vnreclaim'd bloud of generall aſſault.”

25. isim Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.

    “Above all, they hate flash. Just as the English working class has always been, they are fiercely puritanical and abhor all forms of display.”

26. isim Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
27. isim The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
28. isim A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
29. isim A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
30. isim Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).